skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Sorta, but I do not think the lottery comparison is completely accurate. The lottery is random and has a negative expected value intrinsic to playing. GameStop had already gone up a lot and was in the news even before it doubled on Monday. Same for Tesla. Both had ample opportunism for people to invest/speculate.

And in 100 days they might halve or go much less. That's the speculation part. But you don't take into account all the other cases where they didn't double, but instead gotten much worse...
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In the UK payment is moving away to even cheaper methods using Open Banking with Faster payments, which is technically near free - a bit like Giropay. So on the payment end there is an alternative coming better for merchants anyway.
Yep, Brexit was a dumb idea.

Mobile roaming fees will be the next thing to go up. We voted for this, and the EU is laughing at us. (Who can blame them?)
That may be the intention, and it may yet be achieved, but the most recent figures I’ve seen say that the UK is vaccinating at about five time the rate (vaccine doses per 100) as the EU average.

For all the many times the UK dropped the ball over this pandemic (and separately over Brexit), the British health systems — both NHS and private — are actually good at vaccinating people. For example, last time I visited friends in the country, I got a seasonal flu vaccine from a supermarket without an appointment.
Well normally when I do online shopping price is explicitly the sum of base_product_price, shipping_choice, payment_method. So in my experience, a more expensive payment method translates to more expenses to me, the buyer.
Wonder if the show was an experiment in hyperfocused advertising delivery. What would it be worth to certain advertisers to know that Steve Woznick and a dozen other billionaire tech geeks would see their ads? The viewership numbers weren't great and I was happily surprised to see it renewed each season, wondering how AMC could justify the budget for something with such low viewership. But maybe the rates they charged advertisers were high due to the show being narrowly targeted to a particular demographic that's wealthy. The rest of us got to come along on the ride mostly for free. I seem to remember the show having more advertisements for luxury goods than usual for an AMC show.
Why doesn't Canada simply... Compete?

I mean just looking at the aerospace sector and the CSeries saga, Trudeau immediately bowed down to Trump when tariffs were imposed, despite later being thrown out in courts. All he did was to basically threaten to not buy Boeing fighter jets and instead get f35 from Lockheed (which he was contractually obligated to anyways). No support for the industry, nothing. And that was for a flagship prestige technological project.

I still don't understand why he reacted so submissively to Trump. Having the CSeries sold to Airbus at a huge discount was foolish: The plane already had a profitable amount of orders. Now Europeans are reaping the benefits.

Canadian politicians even pitched Vancouver as an ideal HQ2 location since tech workers are worth ~50K less than in America[0]. I mean I'm all for it, my comp being stock-based I'm pocketing the difference.

Is that something the Canadian public... approves of?

[0] https://www.vancouvereconomic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02...
For anyone who is new to vim and wants a more-or-less OOTB auto-complete, auto-format experience, I recommend https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

As for neovim, personally, I don't find a reason to switch. They say integrated LSP is coming in their next release but I don't see how that approach could be better than CoC's tracking of VSCode as upstream and bringing all the goodies of that high man-hours product.

What makes me consider switching, is a practical exclusive feature like that Tree-Sitter algorithm for syntax-highlighting that neovim team is touting or at least a concrete and reproducible performance benchmark against the regular vim in their usecase scenarios (startup-time, long logs, diffs, binary editing, etc).
We already get different prices because we use a different currency, so it will just be tucked away in the transaction and currency conversion costs.
I don't share your paternalistic view of having to police people's actions. Giving informed consent to use some data (and eventually ability to withdraw that consent when the business between the parties ends) should be enough. And your comparison between sharing users' personal data, something that influences only them and voting rights (which are not transferable btw) that influence everyone is absolutely ludicrous.
Sure, but that won't stop MC from raising the prices now that the UK no longer has the bargaining power of the EU behind it. What are they going to do, forbid MC from operating in the UK alone? But the threat of all of the EU banning a particular card issuer has some serious teeth in it.
Your typical shopify store doesn't charge extra for using Amex or a different card provider (or card country).

It can only be in the shipping cost.
In fact, I’m not sure that I’ve stated that strongly enough. I’ve recently written a non–trivial amount of M4 to generate Rust, and I think that M4 is worse than PHP (which I’ve also written a non–trivial amount of, sadly).

https://github.com/db48x/flex/blob/retargeted-to-rust/src/ru...

This kind of macro language is really the worst way to write any kind of software. It’s not maintainable, it’s not readable, there’s no way to collaborate with other developers on it. There’s no way to create abstractions, so you must keep all the details in mind at all times. You can’t put those details into a box and forget about them. It is Cthulu–esqe. It would be a chapter of The Book. Practicing M4, or any language in this family, has a permanent SAN cost. Just learning the language probably doesn’t have much cost, but even small sacrifices should not be made lightly.
You should probably ask your countrymen to be less batshit at least for a moment. It's not as much as that there's no news anywhere else, it's just that Americans are sucking up all of the oxygen.
I would suspect though cannot prove that MasterCard are in cahoots with the UK government on this.

Same thing happened when EU tried to cap roaming charges and Vodafone complained that it was unfair because they'd paid so much for mobile spectrum licenses - the UK government lobbied not on behalf of citizens but on behalf of a corporation AGAINST caps on roaming charges.
We know that people with learning disability often live in homes that are crowded, staffed by people on low pay without access to sick pay; and that medical care in general is not as good as for people without LD.

In the UK we know that doctors often use DNACPRs for people with LD without asking those people or their families, and they do this more than they do for people without LD, and they often use blanket criteria ("does this person have LD?") to do so (this is against the law in England but we know it happens).

Your link is telling us of a scandal of poor care for people with LD that's killing them many years before they would otherwise die. I don't think it's telling us what you think it is, especially since my post is people being put in ICU, not dying, from covid.
Hedge funds are only allowed to manage the money of accredited investors, people with over $1 million in assets and sophisticated financial knowledge and experience. So when a hedge fund screws up, its investors might have to put off getting a new Ferrari for a year or two, but no one is ending up destitute.
> Other companies can't undercut Mastercard's fees because the consumer(the person making the decision of payment type here) doesn't know or care what the fee is.

You got the consumer part wrong. The consumer is the merchant, which can decide if they allow Mastercard cards or not. Same as many merchants don't accept Amex. It's because they don't like to pay the Amex fee. Same as many merchants don't accept Apple Pay or Android Pay or why some merchants only allow card payments for purchases of a minimum amount.

Merchants are the consumers and they decide what cards they will accept. Based on what cards they will accept consumers will be picky about which cards they want to have. For those exact reasons I have a VISA credit card as well as an AMEX because I sometimes can't use my AMEX, otherwise I wouldn't even have a VISA CC.
Still, the solution is quite easy, just increase the price for the GBP version. It can be just added to the currency conversion in the commerce system.

I don't understand how the price can be the same if the currencies are different.
25G BD-R can be had for 8 ct. However, the patent license royalties are at about 10 ct (I forgot if USD or EUR). Also, you can't retroactively pay the royalties when importing.
Patents are bad. They would have developed BluRay without patent protection.
How can you reduce all of human social and cultural life to “Olive Garden and football” ?

And yes, of course it’d be worth a slightly lower life expectancy in order to not live under permanent lockdown. If you don’t agree with that, we probably have such a fundamentally different worldview that we will never see eye-to-eye.
I completely agree. Seasons 2,3,4 were great, but the first one was amazing on how it portrayed the feel of the time, the struggle, everything. They could have stopped at season 1 and I wouldn't have been disappointed.
That makes 84% of Waterloo grads idiots for leaving Canada. They will all wise up and come back
I did a PR regarding some rarely-used setting a couple of years ago, as part of a uni course in architecture. It wasn't merged immediately as I didn't write tests for it, but Moolenaar wrote the tests himself later, and merged it.

https://github.com/vim/vim/pull/3539

https://github.com/vim/vim/commit/375e3390078e740d3c83b0c118...
What have the Romans done for us anyway?
The other side had less catchy busses.
These ‘artifacts’ are certainly very strange semantically (if you consider everything on the internet is what the label says it is).

While the juxtaposition is referentially alarming, and has a pattern, that does not prove the nature of the intent as racist. In other words the seemingly easy pattern for the auditor/audience could also be an easy formula for the maker—especially if it were a bot.

Does anyone know the state of the art for auto-editing and related auto-labeling to say that such content would be easy for a bot to assemble. An easy—excuse the expression— ‘toy’ example?

Not knowing much about the domain, but I also imagine this content could also be manually edited experiment for labeling experiments?

Relatedly, I recall early Twitterbot experiments. They were usually silly, strange, and all had a clearly detectable conceit.

I’m still subscribed to one called Archillect (https://twitter.com/archillect). Early days I recall most images were very dark—both monochromatic and thematically. Their "art" would be the subjective evaluation of a visual with it's interpretation ('being' and 'seeming' dark both visually and thematically--lots of anime or high-tech, and not much 'nature').

I’m not saying this isn’t the work of a @$$h@l3.

EDIT: edited my description of Archillect as artistic experiment.
I fully suspect us to get different pricing. Until it was banned it was a classic cause of consumer frustration with Ryanair: getting to the payment step, and being charged extra to pay by credit card.

I suspect it'll also force many smaller retailers to stop taking card payments again, and requiring cash.
UK customers are alreay starting to get different pricing from EU ones as e-commerce platforms, and everyone else for that matter, adapt to the new rules (UK VAT at point of sale, customs paperwork, etc).

That being the case this is just a matter of increasing the price even more for UK customers (or EU customers in the UK), should a business decide it makes commercial sense.
This is the charge Marstercard levies on merchants in the EU, so it has nothing to do with UK legislation, and EU legislation doesn't impose the limit on orders from outside the EU.
Its like a self extracting zip file
Very impressive website, thanks for sharing book notes.
That’s the western HRE. The ERE only survived until the 1400’s.
Modern UK banks like Monzo tell you to pay in the currency of the store and let them do the conversion for you (at the interbank rate).. The only way really is to charge more for shipping.
On e.g. a Swedish keyboard it's physically inconvenient, since '/' is typed by pressing Shift-7. I agree with your distinction between system and directory-local commands though.
The funniest thing about "Pirates" to me is how it was made at a time when it seemed Microsoft had "beaten" Apple and it showed Jobs learning to accept his defeat.
"Skip" is British English for "container" [1].

Of course they come in various sizes, so it means anything from 1.5 m³ to just over 6 m³. A very rough measure, in other words, which makes sense in context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_(container)
Basic household stuff doesn't break every year. And not everybody is qualified to repair that stuff (which happens to be plugged into power outlets).

I personally didn't dare to try to repair my washing machine or dishwashers (beyond cleaning clogged pipes), although I know people who do.
To support dinosaur, earth should be much richer in natural resources, the ecosystem much more large that we could to imagine
Funny how the folks on this site will still wade into an article even with a completely unrecognizable (yet curious) title like this one.
Even European credit cards usually have much better buyer protections than debit cards. Like if your flight gets cancelled or if the shop you bought from goes under between your order and delivery.
There are simpler ways to have something to talk about... Join a climbing gym, start skateboarding or take up any other sport or hobby!
A pity SpiderMonkey wasn't included.
"the hell-hole shit-crap reality"

Yeah, those iPhones and MacBooks are such shit, really. What a hellish world to live in.
How Chaotic Redditors Made GameStop Stock Skyrocket (and Made Short Sellers Cry)
Ryanair most likely will try to use the new open banking push payment technology. This way the payment can't be reversed and its a faster payment under the hood (cheaper than a debit card for them).
Vultr. They’ve been fantastic.
It would be a bureaucratic mess, that multi-speed Europe. The whole point is that the rules are the same everywhere so you don't need red tape between countries.
From Navy SEAL to Part of the Angry Mob Outside the Capitol
The problem here is that if you want to implement Facebook login in your app, you have to include the SDK. It is against ToS to do it any other way.
In most of the US, credit card surcharges (charging customers a higher price when using credit cards than when using cash or debit/bank cards) are legal.

Is it also legal to charge customers a fee based on what type of card they use? A large number of customers have multiple cards anyway, so that would be a meaningful incentive.
Front-End Development Roadmap for 2021
Direct taxation is not the whole story. Prices of anything including Canadian made goods are higher here than in the states. We basically earn in cdn but pay in usd. Healthcare is debatable, availability is actually a problem.
U.K. residents buying from the E.U. will pay more or the seller make less.

U.K. retailers gain an advantage over E.U. retailers.

Luxemborg's advantage over the U.K. as a corporate HQ location has decreased, which will make it easier to get companies like Amazon to re-locate or open a second office.

Higher costs will incentivize building better payment systems that break the current duopoly.
The “deal” is for zero tariffs and quotas.

So we don’t pay for tariffs, but there still plenty of other trade barriers that exist. Such as paying to have your goods checked as the cross the border. Or paying VAT as it crosses the border because we’re no longer part of the EU VAT system.

The deal we got is basically one notch short of the hardest possible Brexit. It’s barely a deal, just a face saving piece of toilet paper for Boris to cover himself with.
> They run Windows and Chrome just like everyone else

Citation needed.
It got just about the running time it needed. Not too short, not too long. In that respect it's a success.
The EU has so much bargaining power that in fact they have the greatest bargaining power of all. Nobody has so much bargaining power like the EU. Before the EU people didn't even know what bargaining power means.

The EU has so much bargaining power that countries like the UAE or Israel could never get hold of more vaccines than the EU -.-
See also: https://www.theweek.co.uk/football/108141/gay-premier-league...
It's things like page layout, margins, bleeds, printer profiles, support for printer features... Adding proper printing support could easily take six months, even if Qt already supports the basics. And then it still wouldn't be on Scribus' level.
There was nothing in EU regulations preventing us handling the vaccine rollout ourselves exactly as we did.
“Lady Bird Special” Was the Lowliest of Air Force One Aircraft
Thinking about this is interesting if you go with premise the author uses. (to the extent I understand it. Which might be entirely wrong)

The farther we progress techologically the less can be salvaged in the aftermath of a collapse.

I have done a bit of manual soldering earlier in my life.
This was simple stuff but I switched out memory chips. Switched out ROMS (only way to update some machines)

Primarily, zx81 (that you could get as a kit) zx spectrum and then what I consider my first real computer the Atari ST.

I have not performed any such surgery since my ST.

Looking at motherboards if various types we have now requires a lot more precision to “fix”

If you found 3 broken motherboards for the latest version of an I9 it would I think be difficult to cannibalize. Parts to get one working motherboard.

One these old computers it would be possible.

I presume that is one of the reasons the author talks about the z80. I am very familiar with the generations Sinclair used.

And there are genuinely massive amounts of them in various less sexy roles as controllers for electric appliances.

I wonder how far in the Intel PC evolution one could realistically salvage and make Frankenstein computers out of.

Storage would be a problem.
Hard disks are complicated and prone to fail more so after a collapse I am sure.

Getting production of floppy drives going is not trivial either

Say the collapse hapoens in 20 years there will not be easy to find huge collections of 3.5 5 or 8 disks

Casette takes are also getting rare. Though some appear to think it retro and it is making a comeback now.

VHS tapes would be nice.
Yes, 500 pounds of gear sounds about right. I was aware that the car was slightly heavier than usual and drove accordingly. There was no hurry; it was not a race, just a leisurely weekend trip, about 2.5 hours in the car, with an average speed of maybe 35 mph.

With 3 expensive clocks, 3 priceless kids, not to mention hot coffee in hand, I accelerated and decelerated modestly. The drive from Bellevue to Paradise Lodge up on Mt Rainier is mostly rural and then follows a long slow winding mountain road to 5000 ft elevation.
The vaccination programs are national. The Netherlands has received its vaccines from the EU, but they are being kept in storage because the national vaccination program is being slow.
They are only following the rules of the EU cap on fees:

There is one cap for intra-EEA transactions and one cap for extra-EEA transactions. The UK is no longer in the EEA so they have decide to apply the latter cap to these transactions.
You are assuming the single foundation of your argument. Please don't do that.
It seems to be interesting to companies selling goods online in the EU to customers in the UK, so not neccessarily applicable to UK founders yet or I might have misunderstood the intro line:

> fees it charges EU merchants when UK cardholders buy goods and services from them online

But I get the idea, it's interesting to founders in the EU that want to sell to UK for a relevant part of their business.

If I got it correct, master card is basically returning to the fee set that is valid outside of the EU, aren't they? (1.5% compared to 0.3%) which was based on a regulation from 2015 (and there are other payment options that are even cheaper in that regard.)

I do strongly belief that it's a sector that needs regulations like this, but I also feel that this lesson has been available for awhile and is ignored on purpose (e.g., on philosophical reasons such that regulation should be avoided for ineffectiveness reasons)
The article should be taken in the context of system administration. And in that context it's on point. When he writes monitoring he means alerts that mean something important is surely broken and that somebody should wake up right now and log on to fight the fire. I myself call that "state monitoring". And I find the Nagios model still the best for this.

The other kind I call "trend monitoring". And here you can feed data to some program that might detect anomalies, find correlations between different data deltas and so on. This can be very valuable and obviously a computer can crunch a lot more data a lot faster than humans.

For state monitoring I find black box tests to work very good. You don't need to understand how the system works, you don't need any inside data, just try to use it. Have a bot try to buy the product from the web store. It's a lot more reliable than trying to deduce the state of the system from how internal components act and interact. Again, the scope here is to alert somebody that action is surely needed ASAP.

Ofc you also need trend monitoring, you don't want to wait until you're out of space when you can project from the current growth trend. But in keeping with that example a data import will always trick the AI into thinking we're heading for disaster so it's not very reliable as a fire alarm.
Remember vim's first release date is 1991. What other ~30 year-old non-niche software do you know that has managed to remain relevant and having people actively developing for it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)#History
The article, and many of the posts here, seem like a baroque expansion of this (in)famous original response to the Dropbox launch: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863. I can get off Dropbox by... writing my own shell scripts?

What's sad is that increasingly people are feeling that the price for these easy, convenient services is too high, in terms of privacy loss, data lock-in, and so on. Are we going back to the early 00s, when the tech-savvy people would roll their own solutions and everyone else... just has to lump it? Are hackers just being too idealistic? Or do organizations like Signal show a possible way forward?
Well, now you know why it will fail ;)

Kidding of course. In fact I tend to skip titles like this because actually they are not true and that is often even admitted in the text. It annoys me to no end.

Good luck with you AI-based monitoring startup!
You can see on this map the purple DC lines between England and France and Ireland
https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/

I am amazed the grid goes all the way to Iraq
What's so special about a state-level actor? What can a North Korean government do to a security researcher that a medium-sized Russian company cannot (not necessarily state-affiliated, just a company from any country which do not cooperate with the West)? North Koreans don't have more money and certainly they don't have more brainpower.